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This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl uence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write...
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Has data output been validated? Where is it measured? Does the problem have ethical dimensions? Do the Hardware accelerators for machine learning decisions you make today help people and the planet tomorrow? Risk Identification: What are the possible risk events your organization faces in relation to Hardware accelerators for machine learning? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating...
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Are the Information technology security risk assessment requirements complete? What business benefits will Information technology security risk assessment goals deliver if achieved? How do you set Information technology security risk assessment stretch targets and how do you get people to not only participate in setting these stretch targets but also that they strive to achieve these? What are your most important goals for the strategic Information technology security risk assessment objectives?...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
As the economic crisis continues to ravage the globe, increasing numbers are looking for alternatives to the market.The Chicago Teachers Union, Walmart workers, Longshoreman on the West Coast, and many other labor struggles have recently broken out across the US. This has sent many searching for a better understanding of labor history, Marxism , and the future of of the labor movement. A social media campaign will be launched in support of the book. Reviews will be sought in left publications...
| Автор | Kim Moody |
What system do you use for gathering Control system engineering information? Are pertinent alerts monitored, analyzed and distributed to appropriate personnel? Has an output goal been set? What measurements are being captured? Are Control system engineering changes recognized early enough to be approved through the regular process? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history of the UFCO in Colombia, Marcelo Bucheli argues that the UFCO's image as an all-powerful force...
| Автор | Marcelo Bucheli |
Is there a Critical Process Parameters Communication plan covering who needs to get what information when? How do you recognize an Critical Process Parameters objection? How can you measure Critical Process Parameters in a systematic way? What are your needs in relation to Critical Process Parameters skills, labor, equipment, and markets? How do you ensure that the Critical Process Parameters opportunity is realistic? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis still reverberate throughout the globe. Markets are down, unemployment is up, and nations from Greece to Ireland find their very infrastructure on the brink of collapse. There is also a crisis in the management of global affairs, with the institutions of global governance challenged as never before, accompanied by conflicts ranging from Syria, to Iran, to Mali. Domestically, the bases for democratic legitimacy, social sustainability, and environmental...
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What application development technologies and methodologies does your organization use? How do you get accountability and pull each other up and get your organization to succeed overall? Are the parts or steps in the system performing as planned? How often should organizations monitor and track performance? What are your organizations goals for improving the use/management of health information? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry [b][/b] In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise to a new creative industry: social media entertainment. Operating at the intersection of the entertainment and interactivity, communication and content industries, social media entertainment creators have harnessed these platforms to...
| Автор | David Craig |
What are your Fault tolerant system processes? Are you measuring, monitoring and predicting Fault tolerant system activities to optimize operations and profitability, and enhancing outcomes? Can you add value to the current Fault tolerant system decision-making process (largely qualitative) by incorporating uncertainty modeling (more quantitative)? How are the Fault tolerant system's objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder strategy? What new services of functionality will be...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the...
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Who needs budgets? What information do you gather? Where can you get qualified talent today? How do you improve your likelihood of success ? What are evaluation criteria for the output? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
"Superb. Combining unassailable analysis with a thorough grasp of economic and political trends, Duncan Green convincingly argues that the region is headed for even greater tragedy unless people move toward more equitable and ecologically sustainable models of economic development."—Walden Bello, founder of Focus on the Global South The first edition of Green's Silent Revolution , published in 1995, described the imposition of neoliberal economic models in Latin America, the...
| Автор | Duncan Green |
What are your needs in relation to Systems assurance skills, labor, equipment, and markets? How do you manage scope? How do you implement and manage your work processes to ensure that they meet design requirements? Systems assurance risk decisions: whose call Is It? Do several people in different organizational units assist with the Systems assurance process? This best-selling Systems Assurance self-assessment will make you the reliable Systems Assurance domain standout by revealing just what...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In this fresh and provocative book, Anthony DiMaggio uses the war in Iraq and the United States confrontations with Iran as his touchstones to probe the sometimes fine line between news and propaganda. Using Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony and drawing upon the seminal works of Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Robert McChesney, DiMaggio combines a rigorousempirical analysis and clear, lucid prose to enlighten readers about issues essential to the struggle for a critical media and a...
| Автор | Anthony DiMaggio |
In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin’s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members and their allies. The protests to defend collective bargaining rights were militant and practically unheard of in this era of declining union power. Nearly forty years of neoliberalism and the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression have battered the labor movement, and workers have been largely complacent in the face of...
| Автор | Michael D. Yates |
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The last two decades have seen an explosive increase in the ethnic diversity of the workforce, growth in international business, and the emergence of many more multinational companies.The potential for problems as companies operate across borders and managers manage in countries which have different values, norms and cultural behaviors is great. By looking at organizational psychology in a cross-cultural context, we can gain an understanding of the challenges facing organizations and business...
| Автор | Colin P. Silverthorne |
What is your Technical Reference Model strategy? If you find that you havent accomplished one of the goals for one of the steps of the Technical Reference Model strategy, what will you do to fix it? What are your personal philosophies regarding Technical Reference Model and how do they influence your work? What is the problem and/or vulnerability? What Technical Reference Model data do you gather or use now? This one-of-a-kind Technical Reference Model self-assessment will make you the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The management and labor culture of the entertainment industry. In popular culture, management in the media industry isfrequently understood as the work of network executives, studio developers, andmarket researchers—“the suits”—who oppose the more productive forces ofcreative talent and subject that labor to the inefficiencies and risk aversionof bureaucratic hierarchies. However, such portrayals belie the realityof how media management operates as a...
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What new services of functionality will be implemented next with Capability security ? Are there any easy-to-implement alternatives to Capability security? Sometimes other solutions are available that do not require the cost implications of a full-blown project? Are you measuring, monitoring and predicting Capability security activities to optimize operations and profitability, and enhancing outcomes? What, related to, Capability security processes does your organization outsource? What are...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be held legally responsible for a...
| Автор | David Sciulli |